i have a 'stupid' question i'd appreciate help on. i have Debian on my home pc, as well as work laptop. at work, i have unlimited Internet, which i don't have at home. so i thought to bring my HDD to work, and chroot into it for doing `apt-get -d upgrade` ... problem is that when installing, i made about 5 partitions on the HDD, such that /var and / are on different partitions.. i can chroot into the / but how do i make /var available to download the

well, I would suggest you to setup squid (or another proxy) on a different port that apache is using. Then configure your proxy to be transparent, redirect connections on port 80 which have another destination then your own server ip (because there apache should respond) and there you are

In short: The problem is that the Release file on the mirror lists a different MD5Sum to the one of the actual files on the server. The reason for that is that the Release file is upgraded by the mirroring scripts whereas the Translation-en file is not (and you therefore end up with an old file with a different MD5Sum than the one that is expected)

hi guys. i've been reading reading reading about lxc (linux containers) the last few days. i've read the ibm papers about securing it and so on. i still think that lxc is a good idea, also it requires quite some config to get it 'secure'. i wanted to ask again if there are any ppl today that run lxc in production, and would like to ask about there experiences, if you run it hybrid with kvm or so and so on.

My laptop (M17x R3, GTX 460m, Nvidia bin 295.40, Wheezy) has an HDMI IN port. When I plug in a device, my screen switches to the HDMI input and Fn+F8 (HDMI IN toggle) works. How do I get the audio from the HDMI signal to work?

In order for us to troubleshoot your problem with apt-get, aptitude or dselect we need the following information: The complete output of your apt-get/aptitude/dselect run (including the command you used); the output from apt-cache policy PKG1 PKG2...; for the relevant packages and "apt-cache policy". Use http://paste.debian.net/ to provide us with this information. Also ask me about <localized errors>.

jm_ no. The HDMI device I have plugged into my HDMI input port is only showing on my display. The audio is not going to the speakers. Internal audio is set to "Analog Stereo Duplex". There is no HDMI Input device to choose from, and I can't see it in the HDA Intel's codec file. This is the contents of the 5 codec files, and I'm fairly sure the Nvidia device is only for HDMI/DVI output (given Windows lists two HDMI outputs and two DVI outputs). http://pas

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I have a problem with disks; I'm running Debian version 6.0. When I try to run brasero or sound-juicer they don't run by user (but run only from root) and marked in process list as interruptible, as many instances as I tried to run this software. When I try do shutdown system, system do not shutted down and at the end of messages at shutdown: http://pastebin.com/r2hNpsX1

squeeze and squeeze-security have the same package with different md5sums. It's been a known issue for a long time, and it doesn't look like anyone is likely to fix it. Is there a way I can ignore one of them, so that I stop getting notifications that there are outdated packages?

the problem is i have cron-apt configured to automatically install security updates only, and nagios monitors for uninstalled upgrades (but they aren't automatically installed). So I can upgrade to squeeze's latest to get rid of the error in nagios, then at night cron-apt will install the same package from squeeze-security, then nagios says there are updates again.

from what i'm reading, there doesn't seem to be any way to use pinning to ignore just one version of a package from one release. I could decrease the priority on squeeze or increase it on squeeze-security, but that would have undesirable effects beyond the 4 probematic packages i have now.

den: There's no difference between that output and what you pasted previously other than brasero isn't listed as a running process. In your initial problem report, you indicated you believe brasero is connected to the problem you're experiencing. What connection are you seeing between brasero and your power off issue that isn't indicated in what you've provided via paste?

when i start at -f /somewhere/batchfile HH:MM it works, but how to do the same by entering command and parameters directly without using a batchfile ? at "cmdtostart param1 2" HH:MM does not work, how to do this ? anyone an idea ?

zeropiel: resierfs is going to go away, now that Reser is in jail. You might also consider lvm, so that you've flexibility in dynamically resizing partitions, etc. The only trouble lvm is that you need to learn to use it.

AgentC: You're _supposed_ to have permissions problems, to keep a cracked webserver/webapp from breaking your box. The right way is to isoloate the webserver from the things that need doing. I find insserv is often the right way to do this. The webserver writes a file saying what it wants done, insserv runs a job to do it.

retrospectacus: "sudo at" is running from a bashscript which is called from php. only thing i have to beware of is, that it is not be possible to upload any php scripts, would cause security leck in case of sudo:nopasswd

abrotman, i removed that. you told me to give you the file exactly like it was. i changed the subnet, or removed it on all 3, and had copied eth1's entire config and named it eth2, still doesn't work....

the problem seems when i upgraded debian, it didn't take into account that i had not enable, or even specified the onboard nic, yet the onboard nic is clashing with the 2 pci cards, and causing no cards to work.

Do not paste more than 2 lines to this channel. Instead, use: http://paste.debian.net/http://pastie.org/ or http://picpaste.com/ for pics. Use wikisend.com for large files (think tar.gz) up to 100MB. Remember to tell us the URL of your paste! Cannot cut and paste? Ask me about <pastebinit>, <nopaste>, <wgetpaste>.

bbean: i name my hosts after planets, philosophers, whatever. so you could call your web server "plato.cs.nmt.edu" for example. optimally, it would have an entry in DNS controlled by whoever manages DNS for cs.nmt.edu as well.

also, please note that the practice of naming hosts "web", "www", etc is discouraged. using a unique name for each host prevents some issues down the road, such as when you decide to have three web servers instead of one.